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The Day After!
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Seriously I know what you mean. When I'd go back to work on a monday and we would be making chili using lots of red beans cooking, I would swear they smelled like castor beans at the field! We have so much fun flying that all the good things including that smell gets burned into our brain. Oh, and washing my flying jacket doesn't do much good, still smells like "flying"!!!
Ernie Misner
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ORIGINAL: blw
I've always liked the smell of gasoline. Glow fuel smells good when fresh.
I've always liked the smell of gasoline. Glow fuel smells good when fresh.
This state has beautiful weather an scenery, but the people that run that run it.....whacked.
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Since a very young age the smell of glow fuel and banana oil from the LHS has always been a sweet attraction and I still relish the smell at least of glow fuel and perhaps that is why the majority of my fleet has always been and will always remain glow.
Now I do find the smell of gasolene unpleasent and perhaps thats why I only have three or four gassers.
Near the bottom of my Offactory list of unpleasent smells is indeed model diesel fuel. I suppose thats why I only fly two of them and when I do it requires this additional flight line equipment, Water and bar soap right there in the pit so I can wash hands after each and every refueling
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Now I do find the smell of gasolene unpleasent and perhaps thats why I only have three or four gassers.
Near the bottom of my Offactory list of unpleasent smells is indeed model diesel fuel. I suppose thats why I only fly two of them and when I do it requires this additional flight line equipment, Water and bar soap right there in the pit so I can wash hands after each and every refueling
John
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ORIGINAL: blw
I always spill gasoline on my hands and clothes when filling up the car for air freshener.
ORIGINAL: mistermnkim
I have a small can with nitro under the seat of my truck for a air freshener, I thought everyone did
I have a small can with nitro under the seat of my truck for a air freshener, I thought everyone did
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Anyone remember the sweet aroma of the old type Ambroid or Testers glue when it get mixed into the air with some hot fuel proof dope? Ahhhhhhh....
Ernie Misner
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Anyone remember the sweet aroma of the old type Ambroid or Testers glue when it get mixed into the air with some hot fuel proof dope? Ahhhhhhh....
Ernie Misner
Anyone remember the sweet aroma of the old type Ambroid or Testers glue when it get mixed into the air with some hot fuel proof dope? Ahhhhhhh....
Ernie Misner
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Our sense of smell is the strongest sense we have, those of us that have it. It is able to conjure up memories from years past in a blink. Who doesn't remember the smell of their grandparents house? Once the odors have triggered the receptorsites, the olfactory bulb sends nerve impulses, via the olfactory bundles, to the thalamus (which then transmits the impulses to the neocortex) and to the hypothalamus. Its in the neocortex that olfactory discrimination, perception and memories occur allowing us to correctly identify what it is we are smelling. Yes, I smelled some gas just before writing this!
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Since a very young age the smell of glow fuel and banana oil from the LHS has always been a sweet attraction
On the first flight of the day, I purposely make a close-in slow pass to get a good whiff. [8D]
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ORIGINAL: erik valdez
Our sense of smell is the strongest sense we have, those of us that have it. It is able to conjure up memories from years past in a blink. Who doesn't remember the smell of their grandparents house? Once the odors have triggered the receptorsites, the olfactory bulb sends nerve impulses, via the olfactory bundles, to the thalamus (which then transmits the impulses to the neocortex) and to the hypothalamus. Its in the neocortex that olfactory discrimination, perception and memories occur allowing us to correctly identify what it is we are smelling. Yes, I smelled some gas just before writing this!
Our sense of smell is the strongest sense we have, those of us that have it. It is able to conjure up memories from years past in a blink. Who doesn't remember the smell of their grandparents house? Once the odors have triggered the receptorsites, the olfactory bulb sends nerve impulses, via the olfactory bundles, to the thalamus (which then transmits the impulses to the neocortex) and to the hypothalamus. Its in the neocortex that olfactory discrimination, perception and memories occur allowing us to correctly identify what it is we are smelling. Yes, I smelled some gas just before writing this!
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Well, why Hell yea!
If I haven't flown for a few weekends, and I have the need to smell Glow Fuel, I put one on the stand! If that doesn't do it, I get the tractor out and cog it wide open put it in high range 8th. and lock the left brake and do burn out doughnuts! If that still doesn't do it I get the 63 Ford Falcon with the 460/514 BB started and do MASSIVE BURNOUTS on the carport! Then back it into the shop and rev it a few (10) times! Then get out and smell the 118 octane! YEEE HAWWW!!!!
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The neighbors called the Sheriff and reported me, LOL He came out and seen it was me, and asked me to do it again for HIM! He too has it bad!
Thanks, Glen
If I haven't flown for a few weekends, and I have the need to smell Glow Fuel, I put one on the stand! If that doesn't do it, I get the tractor out and cog it wide open put it in high range 8th. and lock the left brake and do burn out doughnuts! If that still doesn't do it I get the 63 Ford Falcon with the 460/514 BB started and do MASSIVE BURNOUTS on the carport! Then back it into the shop and rev it a few (10) times! Then get out and smell the 118 octane! YEEE HAWWW!!!!
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The neighbors called the Sheriff and reported me, LOL He came out and seen it was me, and asked me to do it again for HIM! He too has it bad!
Thanks, Glen
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Years ago I ran out of gas in my Dad's old Chevy Malibu, going up a hill no less, and the gas station was right up past the top of the hill - if I could just make it up there somehow. BINGO! I had my control line flight box in the trunk, complete with a can of Fox Missle Mist fuel, syringe bulb and all. So I took the air cleaner off of that thirsty V8 and using the filler bulb squirted big bunches of that high nitro, all castor fuel down the intake manifold and into the little tube that would fill the float bowl in the carb. Somehow it got me up to the gas station and talk about a good smell for days to come!
I must have been a brat of a kid. I was always putting a little of that glow fuel in the lawn mower tank for a nice smell too.
Ernie Misner
I must have been a brat of a kid. I was always putting a little of that glow fuel in the lawn mower tank for a nice smell too.
Ernie Misner
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Oh man, one mention of Zippo and I swear I smelled it!
I had castor on the nose for 2 days last week. Tomorrow is another flying day, hope it isnt too windy, would hate to have that wonderful smoke blow away before it can permeate my pores. The fuel I am using has castor in it, a blend of syn and castor, so it brings back memories.
I had castor on the nose for 2 days last week. Tomorrow is another flying day, hope it isnt too windy, would hate to have that wonderful smoke blow away before it can permeate my pores. The fuel I am using has castor in it, a blend of syn and castor, so it brings back memories.
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ORIGINAL: hsukaria
When I go flying at the club, there are 4 competing smells. In the order of increasing smell-iness:
1. Glow fuel.
2. Gasoline fuel from the giant planes.
3. Cigarette smoke from some of the members.[&o]
4. The port-a-potty that the old-timers insisted on having nearby the pits area.[:'(]
I can handle the smell of glow fuel. The other 3 smells are a challenge for me.
When I go flying at the club, there are 4 competing smells. In the order of increasing smell-iness:
1. Glow fuel.
2. Gasoline fuel from the giant planes.
3. Cigarette smoke from some of the members.[&o]
4. The port-a-potty that the old-timers insisted on having nearby the pits area.[:'(]
I can handle the smell of glow fuel. The other 3 smells are a challenge for me.